Tango-Nuevo vs. Neo-Tango – part 2

Continuarea articolului de sptamana trecuta, unde a fost analizat "Tango-Nuevo":

Neo-Tango

“What we are seeing in neo-tango is a most beautiful thing; it is the new generation of dancers who have welcomed, subsumed and embraced tango, and are evolving it to a new form!”
Neotango este un gen distinct de tango tango care merge dincolo de el atat in muzica cat si in dans. Este o miscare globala in care muzica include inregistrari din toata lumea, instrumental si vocal, diferita de tango care include muzica moderna inregistrata in ultimii 30-40 de ani si care poate fi dansata folosind biomecanica tangoului. Ca forma de dans este inca in evolutie, dezvoltare. Este o forma a tangoului vie, globalizata, a secolului 21.

Istoria Neo-Tango

Daca nu se poate spune cu precizie cand s-a “inventat” neo-tango, primele trei albume ale grupului Gotan Project - Vuelvo Al Sur (2000), El Capitalismo Foraneo (2001) si La Revancha del Tango (2001) – marcheaza un punc de cotitura al genului la nivel mondial, care este considerat de multi nasterea neo-tangoului.

Muzica Neo-Tango

Philippe Cohen Solal de la Gotan Project spunea odata:

“Two years ago Christophe and I met Eduardo, who had been living in Paris for eleven years already, and immediately we became friends. I was a big fan of Astor Piazzolla, the man who reinvented tango by adding elements of classic and pop music to it, and Eduardo let me listen to all kinds of folk music from Argentina and other parts of South America. One of the records I heard was this folkloric album with extremely percussive music from Argentina, and I simply fell in love with it immediately. We decided to start making music together, without thinking of trends or commercial success. Through Eduardo we met loads of other Argentinian musicians living in Paris, and we started jamming. At first it didn't work out at all. After a couple of jams we recorded the Piazzolla track 'Vuelvo Al Sur', but somehow it didn't turn out the way we wanted it to. Something was missing, and whatever we tried, we just couldn't seem to get a satisfying result. At one point we were about to give up, when one day I was fiddling about in the studio, twisting some knobs and such. I started dubbing some of the separate tracks, filtering them and manipulating the sounds, and all of a sudden the song came to life. I had found the missing ingredient! Excited as we were, we started playing around with it; we let the bandonion player improvise around certain pieces of music, for example, instead of giving him finished pieces to play. We re-recorded the track and made another one, 'El Capitalismo Foráneo'. But the same thing happened to that song; something was missing. Until one day I was walking down the street, listening to it on my walkman, when I heard the street noise coming through the music; a dog barking, a train passing... It sounded fantastic. So I recorded those sounds and mixed them into the song, which gave it a kind of 3D feel.”

In alt interviu:

"It’s the most important thing, we always want to push more, especially in the field of Tango. It’s like Jazz, Tango is genre apart, it’s in a field by itself, and there is already a huge repertoire of hundreds of tracks, so it is important to push the boundaries not necessarily with just electronic or club elements, it could be other things. Just like in Jazz most people play Tango as expertly as possible and to perfection but where is the interest in that? So for us it is most important to find something new and exciting."

In 2003 Narcotango a luat fiinta sub conducerea lui Carlos Libedinsky, care propune si el neotango. A devenit o senzatie peste noapte, fara nici un fel de buget de marketing sau marca inregistrata!

Carlos Libedinsky spunea:

"There was something that seemed strange to me. There were many people experimenting with a new form of dancing, but the music they were dancing to didn't seem to me to harmonize. I also felt a rich, living energy in the milongas, but at the same time the music being played there was all by artists who were already dead. It seemed that a part of the tradition had been left behind.
Much of what I was listening to at the time began to inspire me to dance as if it were tango. I was going out dancing at night and then at home in my CD player I had this modern music playing, and I began to feel a connection between the two. It was very interesting the first time I invited some friends to the studio to play them the new tracks I was recording. Suddenly, we all started dancing here on the patio. At that moment I realized that it wasn't just me, that there were others who were also eager for new music."

Dansul Neo-Tango

Neotango nu este tango nuevo. Termenul de "tango nuevo" a fos folosit in dans de fiecare data cand un profesor de tango argentinian a venit si-a spus ca el preda un nou stil de dans. De exemplu, termenul a folosit pentru a face referire la batranul „Petrole” in jurul anilor '40, cat si in jurul anilor 1990-2000 cand cate un profesor argentinian promova dinamici in afara axei la seminarele lor in jurul lumii.
Neotango foloseste biomecanica de tango standard si “tango flow” pe pista de dans. Este deschis la fuziunea cu alte dansuri si tehnologii, si nu respecta nici o regula stricta a unei milongi traditionale. (!!!)
Wikipedia zica ca termenul Neotango este de asemenea folosit pentru a defini milongi unde se punde un spectru larg de muzica: nu numai electrotango si tango nuevo, dar si muzica clasica, blues, trip-hop, ballads, dubstep, house, soundtracks, chillout, etc.

Caracteristici Neo-Tango

Neotango are urmatoarele caracteristici:

• a aparut in jurul anilor 2000.
• deriva mai mult din USA si restul Europei, decat din Argentina.
• Neo-Tango se danseaza pe muzica care nu este tango traditional (Fusion sau Alternativa – vezi mai jos).
• Are multe forme noi de pasi, imbratisari si combinatii – mai ales pasul extinsHas many new forms of steps, embraces and combinations - particularly the over-extended step, aproape un “salt”
• in dans, imbratisarea este “rupta” intre leader si follower, sau leaderul se roteste in jurul followerului fara nici o atingere.
• Imbracamintea este “hip”, inclusiv salvari, pantaloni largi etc.
  

Sub-genuri Neo-Tango

Neotango este extrem de expeimental nu numai cu o evolutie complet noua a stilului de muzica, dar si la nivelul unor imbratisari si miscari noi si inventive. Consta in doua sub-genuri:

• Tango Fusion: o colaborare intre tangoul contemporan si alte tipuri de muzica care sa creeze un sentiment modern.. Fusion include muzica electronica, muzica sintetizata, jazz, sound ethnic , house, rock, disco, dance-club si techno. Ar fi de notat ca cea mai puternica identificare a Tango Fusion, si probabil cu neo-tango in general, este muzica electronica – cunoscuta ca electrotango. Este interesant de remarcat ca bandoneónul este un puternic aport in electrotango.
• Tango Alternativ: muzica non-tango dansata ca tango argentinian. Aici bit-ul 'tangoesque' este clar reconoscibil, si faptul ca muzica este identificabila il face foarte dansabil.
  

Neo-Tango vs Traditional Tango

Neotango are urmatoarele trasaturi comune cu tangoul traditional:

• un ritm consistent/coerent cu tempou dansabil (bit-ul de tango 4/4 de necontestat)
• ritmuri sofisticate de tango
  

Muzicieni Neo-Tango

Cei mai notabili muzicieni de neotango :

• Gotan Project
• Bajofondo
• Narcotango (Carlos Libedinsky)
• Electrocutango
• Carla Pugliese
• Otros Aires
• Tanghetto
• Hybrid Tango
• Juan Carlos Caceres
• Tango Project (Jaime Wilensky)
  

Albume Neo-Tango

Albume foarte cunoscute de neotango:

• Astor Piazzolla Remixed
• Bajofondo Tango Club (by Bajofondo)
• Buenos Aires Remixed (by Tanghetto)
• Dos (by Otros Aires)
• Electro-Tango Vol. I (by Orquesta electronica Berretin)
• Emigrate (by Tanghetto)
• Felino (by Electrocutango)
• La Revancha del Tango (by Gotan Project)
• Lunático (by Gotan Project)
• Mar dulce (by Bajofondo Tangoclub)
• Narcotango (by Carlos Libedinsky)
• Narcotango II (by Carlos Libedinsky)
• Nuevos Aires (by Bailongo)
• Otros Aires (by Otros Aires)
• Revolution (by Tangothic)
• Tango Electronico (by Le Tango)
• Tango Project II (by Jaime Willensky)